A Texas House bill would eliminate the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness test and replace it with a test comparing students’ performance to one another rather than stateset standards, the Austin Amer ican- Statesman reported. House Bill 4 would also create benchmark tests to measure st...

Are you a shusher or a susser? An ongoing debate has revived about the best way to teach kids. The battle lines are drawn as: 1) Teachers as lecturer learning – Sitting kids in desks lined up facing the front of the classroom. Back to basics, rote and repeat, teacher lecturing. 2) Project-based lear...

Osa, a three-to-fouryear- old lab mix is known for her playful and energetic attitude. Osa is already spayed and ready for her new home. She and other animals are available for adoption now at the City of Fredericksburg Animal Shelter. Call 830-997-1907 or visit their social media pages for more inf...

Cinematic Considerations If Willem Dafoe followed every bit of advice that Oscar winner Gene Hackman gave him, audiences probably wouldn’t be treated ...

Outdoors On Edge Before he was Major Nelson on “I Dream of Jeannie” or J.R. Ewing on “Dallas,” Larry Hagman was the son of divorced parents who was ju...

Gillespie County residents formed a line along Marktplatz down to Main Street at last Saturday’s Fredericksburg Volunteer Fire Department annual fish ...